graham.rickson

graham rickson

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Graham, who writes on classical music, lives in Leeds.

Classical CDs: Sonnets, wolves and creation myths Saturday, 05 March 2022 Read more...	Classical CDs: Pealing bells, abandoned ballrooms and abrasive brass Saturday, 19 February 2022 Read more...
Alcina, Opera North review - flat update redeemed by excellent vocal performances Monday, 07 February 2022 Read more...	Classical CDs: Two clarinets and stereo snare drums Saturday, 29 January 2022 Read more...
Classical CDs: Violins, timpani thwacks and a symphony of iron and steel Saturday, 15 January 2022 Read more...	Best of 2021: Classical CDs Friday, 24 December 2021 Read more...
Classical CDs: Christmas 2021, Part 2 Sunday, 19 December 2021 Read more...	Blu-ray: Bleak Moments Sunday, 12 December 2021 Read more...
Classical CDs: Christmas 2021, Part 1 Saturday, 11 December 2021 Read more...	Classical CDs: Weak heartbeats, bell foundries and French froth Saturday, 27 November 2021 Read more...
DVD/Blu-ray: Belleville Rendezvous Tuesday, 23 November 2021 Read more...	Classical CDs: Muesli, mindfulness colouring and a trip to the boulangerie Saturday, 13 November 2021 Read more...
Blu-ray: Celia Tuesday, 02 November 2021 Read more...	Classical CDs: Two bass drums, three oranges and seven symphonies Saturday, 30 October 2021 Read more...
Bernstein Double Bill, Opera North review - fractured relationships in song and dance Monday, 18 October 2021 Read more...	Classical CDs: Rediscovered orchestral jazz, natural trumpets and non-seasonal chamber music Saturday, 16 October 2021 Read more...

It takes stiff competition to outshine Yuja Wang, who last night at the Barbican complemented her spangled silver sheath with a disconcerting pair...

The taxi cab has become a recurring motif in modern Iranian cinema, perhaps because it approximates to a kind of dissident bubble within the...

A happy, lucid and bright pianist, a forbidding Everest among piano sonatas: would Boris Giltburg follow a bewitching, ceaselessly engaging first...

We meet Joe first at the keys, singing a pretty good song, but we can hear the pain in the voice – but is that...

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Although Dagenham’s Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs are less than a footnote in the story of beat boom-era Britain, appearances on archive...

The setting is the lively 1930s London theatre world, but any sense that The Critic will be a lighthearted thriller should soon be...

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers includes many of his best known pictures and, amazingly, it is the first exhibition the...

One wonders what sitcom writers will do when supermarkets finally sweep the last corner shops away with nobody left old enough to buy...

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